pieplant

A name for the garden rhubarb. pie (2), *pye (2), s. [Fr. pie, from Lat. pica =a magpie; prob. allied to pic us =a woodpecker.] I. Ordinary Language: IMG:content-1050.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically: 1. Eccles.: A table or directory for devotional services; a table or rule in the old Roman Offices, showing in a technical way how to find out the serv- ice to be read upon each day. "The number and hardne of the rules called the pie." -Common Prayer. (Prof.) 2. Print.: A ma of type mixed up in disc rim- inately. *(1) By cock and pie: An oath in which cock is a corruption of God, and pie is the Roman service- book. "By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir; come, come." -Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1. (2) To go to pie: To be mixed up indiscriminately. (Lit. & fig.) "Your military ranked arrangement going all (as the typographers say of set types, in a similar case) rapidly to pie."-Carlyle: French Revolution, vol. ii., bk. ii., ch. iv. *(3) To make a pie : To combine in order to make an advantageous contract. "The French party are making a pye." -Bowes: Cor- respondence (1583).